Somebody need me too much Somebody know me too well Somebody pull me up short And put me through hell And give me support For being alive Make me alive Make me alive Make me confused Mock me with praise Let me be used Vary my days

Every day at dawn and dusk parrots flock to a nearby tree and their chattering gets so loud it’s deafening. I finally looked up the group noun for parrots out of curiosity, and it is a Pandemonium, which is so perfect.

I’d sincerely love if we never stopped trying to find words to articulate what made – makes – Sondheim Sondheim. I will read them all. Grateful especially for these from @HelFitzgerald, John DeVore, p, and Adam Gopnik:

Well, I was officially accused of being a shill for Koch Industries because of something I wrote. So check that off the ol' bucket list, I suppose.

Every minute of every day right now I think to myself, "I don't think I can do this." And then I shrug my shoulders and just keep moving forward and doing it. And I guess that's adulthood? Hooray?

I still firmly believe a year should be 1460 days long. Every anchor event would be like the Olympics. I'd feel so much better about Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthdays, and anniversaries at right around that spacing.

I feel this way currently.

CS Lewis describes his new book to JRR Tolkien

I was sort of hoping the whole “may you live in interesting times” thing would be more like I fall through a tree stump into some kind of candy kingdom

times are starting to feel precedented

I’m getting ads for Dry January related products, and I have to say that feels overly optimistic.

Learned today both that Soylent Green takes place in 2022 and George Jetson was born this year, and these both feel right.

Having not gotten covid yet feels like I've been hiding in the back of a 2+ year long middle school dodgeball game and the front lines have been THINNED

I have never felt more seen.

My doctor and I were discussing my anxiety and she said "Brains are made to keep us alive. They're not made to keep us happy." And I can't stop thinking about that.

Incredible critique of blockchain in all its forms. Succinct, well-reasoned, and encapsulates why it's fundamentally flawed and can never really be fixed – the problems are a feature not a bug.